The Most Miserable Festival In America
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It's burning it! Biggest party in the world, baby! The dark and evil Cthulhu is bringing his angry wrath down upon the Burning Man Festival, Tom! If you ask me what Burning Man is, I would say that it's basically Coachella with no influences and the difficulty set to hard. Burning Man is a huge week-long desert gathering in Nevada where people built a temporary city, make giant art, throw parties, wear wild outfits, and basically live off-grid for a week. Now that's what's on the surface. That's not the main reason why people actually go there. And the admission tickets are anywhere from $500 to $3,000 depending on the perks that you want, like the VIP perks that you want. At $500 you get general access, and at $1,000 you get general access.
And at $3,000, you get access in general. No, but you actually don't get any extra perks if you pay more. You actually just support the people that build this entire thing. Cause it's not an organization, it's just people, which honestly, I actually support that. But just because it's ran by actual people and not an organization, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's gonna be any better, because this was the sleeping situation this year.
So people were actually sleeping in shipping containers because there's no houses, hotels, or even those safari camping. Do you remember those from Coachella where you had to pay like $10,000 for those? But uh unfortunately, here those do not exist. They don't really offer you anything to sleep. So believe it or not, the shipping container is actually the best case scenario. And I know these people look a little miserable, but that's the price that you get for wanting to. party hard. Which you know what I agree with it, I love doing that as well, I love partying. And you're probably asking yourself, Wade, if that is the best case scenario for you to sleep, Lizzie, what's the worst case scenario? Doesn't that look amazing guys?
I'm getting FOMO. The fact that not only is it so bad that someone the entire time when the wind is blowing has to hold the tent so it doesn't like fly away. And you paid for this? You're over there sleeping and you finally sli fell asleep after three hours of like this hard wind and the dust that you're breathing in, by the way. And then you hear someone tap like, Hey Wake up baby girl. It's your turn, yeah. I just did my two hours. Now it's your turn. Yeah. Have fun. Someone brought their luggage? Oh. How are you dragging that? They paid all that money just to live in the apocalypse. I've said this shit tons of times before, but there is truly this obsession with people trying to live in this survival state.
We've seen this so many times before. People are living so comfortable and they just hate it. They truly believe it or not, there's people that hate living in a comfortable state, and they're like, I wanna be in a survival state, I wanna be in. Miserable send these people to war or like when zombie apocalypse first happens. If I don't see these motherfuckers on the front line defending me from the zombie apocalypse, then you're a performative survivalist. And even if you get just the basic ticket that starts at $550, you're gonna end up spending way more than $550. The expenses that add up by the time you're actually inside, you're probably up to at least a couple of thousands of dollars. This is how much it cost me to take my wife to Burning Man.
What is Burning Man and why do people attend it?
I was shocked that my wife's outfits alone cost us over five hundred dollars. Five hundred dollars? And every car has to buy a vehicle pass for $150. We rented an RV for two thousand dollars.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:39
2
What is Burning Man and why do people attend it?
4:39–6:32
3
How much does a ticket to Burning Man really cost and what does it include?
6:32–9:45
4
What are the worst sleeping conditions at Burning Man (shipping containers, wind, mud)?
9:45–27:35